Campaigners collect at London's V&A Museum on Saturday Nov. 16, 2019, to protest in opposition to its show of the Sackler identify.CNBC's Chloe
Campaigners collect at London’s V&A Museum on Saturday Nov. 16, 2019, to protest in opposition to its show of the Sackler identify.
CNBC’s Chloe Taylor
Campaigners gathered at London’s well-known Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum Saturday to protest in opposition to its show of the Sackler identify.
Some members of the billionaire Sackler family are known for founding and owning Purdue Pharma, the pharmaceutical large that produces Oxycontin — a prescription painkiller that has been broadly blamed for serving to gasoline the U.S. opioid disaster.
Saturday’s protest noticed campaigners from Sackler PAIN, a bunch led by photographer Nan Goldin, collect within the V&A’s Sackler courtyard, named after the household and constructed utilizing funds they donated.
The group of round 30 staged a 5 minute “die-in” to “honor the 5 individuals within the U.Okay. who die every day of an overdose.” They known as on the museum to take down the Sackler identify, throwing {dollars} stained with crimson paint and empty Oxycontin bottles within the courtyard.
In July, V&A Director Tristram Hunt advised the U.Okay.’s Guardian newspaper that though the museum would not settle for cash from the household, it will not be taking their identify down or “denying the previous.”
Earlier this 12 months, Sackler PAIN held an illustration in New York’s Guggenheim Museum, which additionally had a historical past of accepting cash from the household. The museum in March confirmed…